Improvement in wagon-dashes



J. E. LINES.

, vuqonmsms.

No.183,53Q- V Patented 0c t.24,1876.-

Fig. 1.

fnvf/ivw /MQMW N. PETERS. PllON'H-ITHOGRAPNER. WIQSHINQWHD. c

JAMES E. LINES, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

HOMER, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN WAGON-DASHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 183,580, dated October 24,1876; application filed August 16, 1876. v v

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, JAMES E. LINES, of Homer, county of Cortland, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wagon-Dashes, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a view of the dash, the leather being cut away to show the connection of the foot and frame. Fig. 2 is a view of the upper part of the cross-bar or foot-bar extended. Fig. 3 is a view of a portion of the dash-frame and the foot-bar disconnected.

The object of my invention is to provide a dash in which the foot is extended to the top rail in the dash-frame, forming both a foot, and also taking the place of 'theusual cross bar at c, and in which, being detachable, the frame may be entirely covered and stitched by machine before the foot-bar is attached, making a more perfect finish than can be done by hand-sewing.

ff is the usual iron frame, to be covered by a sheet of leather upon each side stitched through, the stitching being represented by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. B is the foot, by which the dash is attached to the wagon, which is continued from the'lower to the up per rail of the dash, and terminates in a fork or crotch, d, forming a seat for the upper rail. The foot is attached to the lower rail of the frame by screw or bolt directly .through such rail, or-preferably by putting the screw or bolt through a projection swaged onto the lower rail, as shown at c. The latter arrangement allows of the use of a lighter rail, as it is not weakened by any bolt-hole.

In manufacturing my improved dash the leather is first stitched upon the frame f, and

also the channel 6 is formed'between the sheets of leather by the rows of stitching between the bottom and top rails. This may all be done upona sewing-machine. Then, a slight opening being made in the leather at O, the upper end of the foot-bar is inserted into the channel 0, and pushed up until the fork d becomes seated upon the upper rail, when the lower part of the foot is attached to the lower rail at O.

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a covered dash for wagons, the foot B, extended so as to form a cross-bar to the dash,aud attached to the rails of the dashframe, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of the extended foot B, I

provided with the fork d, and the frame f, provided with the projection O, swaged on the lower rail of said frame, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' 3. A combination of the frame f f and the leather cover, provided with the stitched channel 0, with the extended foot B, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES E. LINES. Witnesses:

JAS. A. NIXON, WM. R. RANDALL. 

